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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 11:55:32 EDT
ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SESSION SUSPENDED AFTER RENEWED CONFRONTATION.
Parliament speaker Armen Khachatrian suspended this week's parliament
session for one day on 11 June after opposition deputies again
occupied the podium to protest his refusal to include on the agenda
an opposition demand for a debate on impeaching President Robert
Kocharian, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau and Armenian agencies reported
(see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 June 2002). Khachatrian also ordered that
beginning 12 June all deputies must deposit firearms in the guardroom
before entering the parliament chamber. Pro-government and opposition
legislators traded insults, and a member of the People's Deputy
faction that supports Kocharian punched opposition deputy Aramayis
Barseghian in the head. Kocharian condemned the standoff as
"hooliganism" and laid the blame for it on the opposition. LF
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